Travel Blogs from Chateau-d'oex

... and yes, the mountains are impressive. As we didn't want to take Frankie too high into the alps, we chose a campsite at Lausanne on Lake Geneva. It is known as Lac Leman by the locals. The first day we went to the lake to have a look. The water was clear, blue and very clean. Apparently it has not always been like it and in the 1960's it was too polluted to swim in. When you stay ...

... t as jaw dropping gorgeous as many of the other days but there were several nice views. Tomorrow is the last pass on our journey and will drop is back into France. My legs and feet are sore and tired today! Hopefully they can muster one more pass! Julie is tough and is going strong. We have four more hiking days and then a few days to relax in Chamonix before heading ...

... site. The heart of the Collider is this big toroid, carefully exhausted of all air, and enclosed by thousands of superconducting magnet, maintained at 1.9 K. A stream of particles is injected into the toroid where they accelerate around the circle in both directions. The magnets serve to boost their speed close to the speed of light and keep then confined in tightly focused counter-rotating beams. As the ...

... Thun that I thought would take me to the lake and campsite at Gwatt. With the low lying clouds showing no sign of relenting I had already had enough of the “hilly detour route”! However the route didn’t initially follow the lake as expected, instead taking a trail through a completely deserted forest that seemed like the perfect location to try out wild-camping in Switzerland. Had I known that I had to cross the steepest hill ...

... on the porch all day and enjoy the view - but we have lots more to see so I am going to have to get myself up and down that hill! The sunset over Lac Leman (thats Lake Geneva) took my breath away last night and i wonder yet again at the beautiful variety of Gods creation. It is 5.30am here as I write, and I know I will wake early for a few days, but am feeling pretty good considering the body turnaround involved. Today I plan to explore ...